Prior to working with Juniper SRX’s my firewall experience was predominantly Check Point. Two nice features of Check Point firewalls are Smart Log and Smart View Tracker which both provide easy access to firewall log records. When I started using SRX’s one of my first questions was how do I get to view dropped traffic? […]
Having recently emerged relatively unscathed from a Check Point Smart Management Server upgrade, I thought I’d blog about the experience – mainly for my own future reference, but if it helps anyone else out then that’s great too! I needed to get our SecurePlatform, Open Server based SMS from version R71.10 to R75.30, so I […]
One aspect of the Check Point SecurePlatform OS that I struggle to get my head around is backups. There are a few different options, and during the course of researching an upgrade I came across the best explanation I’ve seen yet. I’ve decided to grab a copy of the relevant text and post it in […]
This blog post details how to back up and restore Check Point Security Management Servers and Security Gateways running on the SecurePlatform OS, on Open Server hardware. There are two types of backup available – Snapshot and Backup. **note** it is recommended to only carry out backup procedures during a maintenance window due to the […]
A quick post showing how to save the routing and interface information from your Check Point Management Servers and Gateways running on the Secure Platform OS. Simply SSH onto the box and enter netstat -rn > routes.txt ifconfig > ifconfig.txt Copy the 2 txt files off the box and then also grab a copy of /etc/sysconfig/netconf.C […]
To save me time searching for commonly used commands for administering Check Point SecurePlatform (SPLAT) based boxes, I’ve started to put together a list of them here: General: chsh -s /bin/bash username – ensures that user “username” is dropped automatically into Expert Mode when logging in through the console fw ctl pstat (displays data […]
I recently to needed to upgrade the Software Image on a Cisco ASA 5510 security appliance from version 8.2(2) to 8.2(5). This process also required upgrading the ASDM software to version 6.4(5) so that the newly upgraded appliance could still be managed via the GUI. The process for both pieces of the upgrade is […]
In this short blog post we step through upgrading the license on a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The ASA ships with a “Base” license, and we will upgrade to “Security Plus”, which enables advanced features such as Failover. It’s a very simple process, as follows: Step 1. Ensure that the ASA […]